the other thing i wanted to announce was that there was a special thanks to building inspector tom kessler who represented dbi at a special town hall hosted by supervisor mar on accessibility compliance for small businesses. that was held on saturday, march 2nd, at the richmond branch library. town hall was part of an effort to educate the small businesses on steps they can take to minimize or prevent drive by lawsuits on accessibility issues. another of our staff, vivian fong and evelyn of planning review also received letters of appreciation from customers that they helped who they felt went above and beyond the call of duty. so, we want to thank them for their work. the dbi also -- i guess i'll hold this because we're going to talk about it on the agenda. briefly, the dbi distributed abbreviation forms for new employee recognition programs that we wanted to start for the quarter, but we'll discuss that more because it's agendized. and finally, the dbi has been working with the san francisco carnival business reporters carolyn said on an upcoming article about recovering local economy fr